Transcribe vs Translation - What's the difference?
transcribe | translation |
To convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc., to another representation. The term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.
(dictation) To make such a conversion from live or recorded speech to text.
(computing) To transfer data from one recording medium to another.
(music) To adapt a composition for a voice or instrument other than the original; to notate live or recorded music.
(biochemistry) To cause DNA to undergo transcription.
(linguistics) To represent speech by phonetic symbols.
(label) The act or (label) an act of translating, in its various senses:
# The conversion of text from one language to another.
# The conversion of something from one form or medium to another.
# (label) A motion or compulsion to motion in a straight line without rotation or other deformation.
# (label) The process whereby a strand of mRNA directs assembly of amino acids into proteins within a ribosome.
# A transfer of motion occurring within a gearbox.
# The conveyance of something from one place to another, especially:
## (label) An ascension to Heaven without death.
## (label) A transfer of a bishop from one diocese to another.
## (label) A transfer of a holy relic from one shrine to another.
## (label) A transfer of a disease from one body part to another.
(label) The product or end result of an act of translating, in its various senses.
As a verb transcribe
is to convert a representation of language, typically speech but also sign language, etc, to another representation the term now usually implies the conversion of speech to text by a human transcriptionist with the assistance of a computer for word processing and sometimes also for speech recognition, the process of a computer interpreting speech and converting it to text.As a noun translation is
translation parallel displacement (motion without deformation or rotation).transcribe
English
(Transcription)Verb
(transcrib)- The doctor made several recordings today which she will transcribe into medical reports tomorrow.
